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Originally Posted by btimbit
They aren't simply Walmart employees. It's not like two cashiers thought the guy was stealing and jumped him in the parking lot. These guys are licensed from the government, and hired for this. This wouldn't be suspected shoplifting, this would be them witnessing a crime and doing their job, defending themselves when someone is preventing them from doing it.
Worth adding this guy had a history of theft and violence prior to this.
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Should LPO's have this power? Its essentially licensing a private police force. Now its far cheaper to have undertrained and poorly paid (relative to the police) deal with these types of crimes but it definately will lead to cases like this.